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It must take you a long time to get high now, huh? Have you reached that point on this episode of Impulsive? What? Are you stoned right now?
Yeah, I'm high. I was like, I'm pretty sure you know that. What the f*** is I'm having for? I'm crazy.
You hear it sound like one of those old phones? I'm finding an air strike to the coordinates 1274-3C. That was dumb. By the way, this is a microphone, so when you're talking to it, try to be close.
He's like, yeah. Yeah? Right, right. Yo, what's up?
Welcome back to Impulsive, the number one podcast in the world, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for listening. If you're not subscribed, go ahead and do that. Our guest today is here with us.
He's one of the most popular rappers in the game with over 17.5 million monthly listeners on Spotify. He's got a new tour, new album, new single. All coming soon. Even if you think a new girlfriend, ladies and gentlemen, it's Trippie Redd.
Let's go. Brother, how are you? I'm straight. How are you?
Amazing, bro. Yeah, it's an honor to have you here. Mike threw this one on us. Not three hours ago.
He goes, by the way, Trippie's coming to six. I said, oh, yeah, hold up. Well, first he said, well, I'm going to tell you guys we're going to trip out. And I was like, all right, enough of those shits.
Shout out Pete. If you're going to do jokes, make them good ones. Shout out Pete. Unnecessary calling.
Yeah, shout out Pete. Thank you. Pete comes here with the gas. Yes, sir.
So, yeah, it's an honor to have you here. Fuck him. That's what I was just saying. Fuck you, Pete.
Pete does one favor and he wants a little credit. Yeah, dude, it's an honor to have you here. You look great. A lot of bling on your neck.
How much money do you think all that's worth? All in. There's a couple of hundred thousand. Must be nice, man.
Must be nice. Must be nice. Hey, you from Ohio? Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, where at? It's like Spider-Man. Spider-Man, man. I'm from Canton, Ohio.
I grew up in also Columbus. Okay, cool. For how long of your life? I spent like 13 years, 14 years in like Canton.
And then from there on, I was in Columbus. Gotcha, gotcha. So probably like when I was 14. Gotcha.
You're an Ohio kid, like through and through. Do you talk about that at all or you kind of leave Ohio? I love Ohio. It's great, right?
That's my shift. I know. Our artists is from Ohio. It's so sick.
A lot of people are from Ohio. A lot of people say something about what's in the water out there in Ohio. We just lit. You guys, MGKJ, even Jake Paul.
He's from the same state. Cuddy. God damn it. All right, well.
Real Manson in Ohio. Oh, yeah. Real Manson had a little tough time. All right, so you get a little tough time.
So you get born in Ohio. Then it's 2021 and you have the highest song ever with Mr. Rage. And I'm sure there was nothing that happened in between.
It was just one to the next, right? Yeah, I was just making music. That was it. That was it.
I'm always so fascinated by that, bro. The journey. Yeah, I mean, y'all have hip-hop artists in general have the most interesting come-ups. So you were making music in Ohio with your friends, I'm assuming, right?
And then some shit popped off? Yeah, basically. Kind of like that, yeah. My manager, he was friends with my cousin.
And my cousin introduced me to him. So I got with him. He had a studio. That studio got taken down, but we were still using the studio while it was, like, not being renovated no more.
It was, like, the electricity was still on in that bitch for some reason. But I don't know, we was using that shit. And that's where I made Love Scars at. It was an abandoned studio.
But that shit ended up coming out crazy. But did you know you had a sound? Because you obviously have a very clear sound and everyone loves it. But did you know you had something?
Are we just fucking around? Because there's a lot of artists who don't ever make it. I'm, like, super into, like, I don't know, like, being an artist. Like, for example, my voice and everything, like, I'm super particular with everything I do.
So, yeah, like, in the beginning, I knew, like, I was distincting myself away from everybody. We're doing the raspy little shit. You know, making my shit, like, stretch out and, like, scratch my voice, but also singing at the same time. A lot of people don't really do that.
So, 100%. 100%. That's, I think, that God-given thing. Because, like I said, a lot of people will try.
That's cool. That's cool. So I've ever seen in my life. Thanks.
It's made by beat. You made this? Yeah. What don't you do?
It's my brain. It's my demons at play. Oh, fantastic. Dap.
Dap. Dap. Dap. Dap.
Oh, Dap. I like that. Is that out yet? It's about to drop.
Oh, sure. You got a date for it? I love a care package, Pete. Very soon.
Pete said very soon. Got to figure it out. Someone's in Puerto Rico, bro. I don't remember.
Yeah, it's just crazy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's fantastic. So, yeah, man, I feel like a lot of people try to do the thing that they would love to do, right?
Their dream. But a lot of people don't have that thing that, unfortunately, their dream requires. And you have it. But I guess what I'm asking is, did you always think that?
Like, have you felt different your whole life? Because you've superseded the category that you're in and beat out a lot of people and have been around for a minute now. And you did it. You made it.
Congrats. But did you always know you were going to? I mean, it wasn't no doubt. I wanted to.
But it was like, I don't know. It's like one in a million. And then you got a bunch of people saying that to you in your face. It's a one in a million type thing.
But then you got the other people that have motivation. Be like, this age, by the time you get to this age, you'll be where you need to be in music or whatever. So I don't know. Just hearing a bunch of shit made me get hella motivated to really do music.
And then I really just didn't have no doubt in myself. I knew I was going to make it. But it was like, do I really think I'm going to make it? Or is this shit going to keep me back?
Like, everybody saying shit. Like, you know, get a job and shit. That shit was lame to me as a kid. I was like, I'm going to do this music shit.
I'm just curious. Did you have a job in mind? Like, hey, should this not work out? I'm going to go back.
I'm going to work at five. I'm going to work at five. Because to me, that's the leap. Like, ain't no going back.
But you can't. I was like 15, 16. Did your mom and dad know about that? I didn't live with my brother.
That's all. I was living at that level. Okay. But who were you with?
Who was your guardian? Nobody. No guardian. I was just staying at like somebody's house and shit.
Going to school? Like, you're in high school or no? I finished high school. Barely.
Really? Oh, so you're like smart as hell. Wait, who were you listening to at the time when you were coming up either in Ohio or in Atlanta? Who were you listening to?
Like, who were the architects of your sound? Because your sound is unique, bro. Yeah, I was listening to like, shit. I still listen to Lil Wayne now.
I was listening to like a lot of Lil Wayne. I was listening to like, Doug, shit, Drake, Uzi. Yeah. Did you ever think you'd be working on him?
Playway Cardi. Playway Cardi, you ever think you'd be working on him? He hit me up early in my career. He wanted to sign.
Crazy. Crazy. And now you have, I mean, Mr. Rage is one of the hottest songs of the year for sure.
That trap metal sound. That's what people are calling that beat. I know Pete's been, what is it? What do you call it?
Hyperpop. Hyperpop. I know Pete's been talking about it a lot too. This dude out in Europe making those beats.
You think that might be the new sound? It's not really new. No. It's quite older.
When I dropped my album, I love that before, I had got a lot of hyperpop beats back then. And I was using like, hyperpop beats to use for my album. But I never really could like, do what I wanted to with them. Because I wanted to go back to my old sound.
I do a lot of love music now. But like, back in the day, I used to make just happy, crazy shit. Like just raging and shit. So I wanted to go back to that sound.
But I had to do it after I got out my love shit that I wanted to do. Which was a love letter before. So you're going to stick with that sound for the upcoming album? Yeah.
I mean, yeah. That's like, I'm going just back to like having fun with this shit. I don't really want to be too emotional no more right now. I don't know if I'm supposed to say this, but Pete played me a couple of tracks off it.
Oh, that's the new shit? Insane. Insane. I know.
I took a shot at that one. Pete, I hope you're not mad at it. That shit's insane, bro. Pete, I'm going to kick you.
Just see him with a busted face and I say, hey, what the fuck? Share that in conference. No shit's insane. A lot of it follows that same kind of vibe.
And that vibe is, I mean, people are going nuts about that shit. That shit is slapped and everybody's listening to it. So when you drop your album trip at night, what is your metric for success? You trying to be number one?
You trying to just release a dope piece that you like? I'm just getting out of body of work at the end of the day. This is like something like, it feel good, you know, but I'm not really tripping if it's number one or not. I just want to get the music out so people can tell me if they fuck with it or not.
Is that what you care most about? The reaction to my fans and shit? I think that's most important, right? I think if you lead with that.
I think the only thing I need is like a number one record, maybe. I got 40-something plaques. None of them been a number one, but I got 40 plaques. Hey, that's wild, bro.
It's competitive. That's like the only one little thing. Okay, I can get that. Boom.
My little shit is complete. But other than that, I'm not tripping on the number one album. If it's number two or number three, it's whatever. Yeah.
But would you rather have a number one album on the chart? No, no, no, but I feel you. I feel you. But would you rather, because you have songs that are heavily respected by the culture.
You know what I'm saying? I remember when Dark Knight Double came out with Travis. I was like, yo, that shit bangs. Like, that is the song.
If you ask me to name a couple of songs that you would play to get people fired the fuck up to trash some shit, that shit gets me going. So would you rather have that super culturally relevant sound that everybody's like, damn, we really that are being number one, you know, using my shit or just using what I could clearly see I did or whatever, you know. People be copying this shit. I'm curious how you came over your name, Trippie Red.
Trippie and Hippie put together. So that's why it's spelled T-R-I-P-P-I-E instead of Y. And then Red, because my brother's favorite color and my grandma's favorite color is Red. And then you died of Red.
Then the Red Hair came? Yeah. I mean, I was crazy. I died.
My shit blew. At first, I was like, I'm Trippie Red. And I died of my shit blew. I'm like, Trippie Blue.
That's Trippie. Let's see what you're saying. That was the beginning. Red makes more sense.
Red makes more sense, but I was just trying to be like. Wait, wait, why Hippie, though? I mean, you're smoking, right? But are you a hippie?
Like, you do second. That was. Are you a hippie? I mean, like, obviously, Trippie is Trippie.
I mean, I get high, like, when? So. You get high. I fucking don't know.
By the way, I don't know how you get high and do anything. Like, when I smoke, it's the turn off. Like, literally flip the switch off. I don't know.
I can just be a hell of a pleasure. I'm hella high. It slows me down. Okay, so y'all, I was going to ask me.
No, it's a TV smoke. I'm an Indica smoke. Ah. Your music is fucking hype and shit.
I mean, you know, some of it, right? And I'm sitting here with you. You seem pretty calm and shit. And then you get on stage.
You start performing. You get in the booth, whatever. And some of your music goes fucking crazy. Are you just storing that energy somewhere?
Like, where is it? Where does it come from? I don't know. That shit just come out of nowhere.
I just be making music. I freestyle everything, too. I don't even write. You don't do the melody scratch track first?
What's that? Like, you get in there, just kind of hum some shit. Figure out what time I'm good. Sometimes I'm like, yeah, that shit.
Just hum a little bit. I mean, that's low-key the process is to find a little, you know, the repetitive, super firepower everybody want to hear. You got to really kind of hum it first a little bit. I don't know.
When you freestyle, I guess that's what it is for me. How often do you do in the booth? Oh, like every day. For real?
Yeah. I might take a little week break or whatever. Would that be random? Does it ever feel like, you ever feel trapped?
Ever feel like, ah, it's just getting a bit redundant? I can't sit in the same room for too long. For too many days in a row. I've been to almost every studio.
And then I started recording at home. Hey, why there? Let's talk about the cat. Like his legs?
His upper body was gangster and his legs were together like this. Like a little boy having to pee. What are you doing? He's like across his legs where he stands.
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Yeah, I like to be on some, like, by myself shit. Really? Is that your vibe? Do you go out?
I used to. Not anymore. Are you working? I like going out, though.
I go out, but it just got to make sense. Like money-wise? Mm-hmm. Like you ain't just going to go to Hyde on a Friday night.
It's pretty wise. We can do it. But what about, like, you know, you and the homies, you want to go hit a night on the town, you're going to go to a club. No?
Karaoke night. Maybe birthdays or, I don't know. No karaoke. Somebody did, like, an accomplishment or got something that they really wanted.
But you don't see, like, a point in being out, like, I ran on Fridays and Saturdays, like, party in the weekend and shit. That shit weak. I fucking hate that shit. How come?
It's not fun? It's not fun to me. It's a waste of time. Yeah, I can drink at home.
I can invite my homies to the group. You can curate your own crowd. I mean, it's different when, like, you're famous. I don't know.
I don't like to go nowhere. He's making a lot of good people. No, he's making great points. By the way, I'm not going to be the guy that's like, I love God.
I mean, I go out, and when I get home, I'm like, damn, why the fuck? No, see, I'm asking myself why he's able to stop himself before he goes and ends up standing in the middle of a hundred people at the club. I was that guy that was like, damn, why the fuck do I keep doing this? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I just don't do it. I feel like it might have been a form of networking, but now you don't need to really do that. I need someone to put this more. You can put it right with my Tyson joint.
Yeah, Tyson joint is up there. Well, hold it. Let's keep it, bro. Let's collect joints.
That's the Tyson joint. Not all of it. It'll be other parts. Put it in there.
Well, maybe we put it out first. That's the Tyson joint and the Trippi joint. And it's going to lack oxygen smoke. Well, you're not cutting the Tyson joint now.
You destroyed it. No, that's how it was. We'll make it unlike that. What if the Trippi red joint likes the Tyson joint?
It incinerates them both and we have nothing left. Oh, we can't do that. That's the other joint, so it's not going to light. Simple math, Mike.
It's all foggy now. We're going to look over in two seconds. The whole wall is going to be all fine. I might be a little stoned right now, to be honest.
Really? You can all fuck that. I can't do weed and do things. I commend you.
When you record, you do. Do you smoke usually? Yes. And it doesn't focus up?
I perform for an hour, 30 minutes. I smoke the entire time. No way. What about backstage?
You already roll everything? I mean, I only got a weed roller, but like some of my homies are rolling up some shit. Who was it? I don't really like to roll like that.
Who was it? Snooper? Somebody had his own roller. Somebody hired him.
Oh, was it Two James? No. I'm not paying for somebody. You paid like 100 G's to have somebody just to roll the weed.
How good was that roller? No. No matter how good. Never worth it.
Blood roller is not worth it. No, absolutely not. But what about cottonmouth? These are simple physics.
These things happen. You like cottonmouth when you're performing? People think that's weird. Oh, you talk about when I'm on stage.
No, how do you do it? I'm talking literally physically. How does that make sense? That's a good answer.
I drink water and then I smoke. He has the answers. He has the answers. Here's the big question everybody on the internet.
Actually, no one's problem. Would you ever step foot in the boxing ring? No. You guys, no.
Safe, bro. Safe. I don't like it. I mean, I like watching it.
Me, personally. I don't know. I feel like I shouldn't even fight nobody unless it's really like, I want to fight this person. You really?
I ain't even going to be in the boxing ring. Be the first rapper who also like, builds rowboats. I don't fucking know. Like a separate, whole new thing.
Outside of rap. But you got a hobby that you can see turning into a lucrative job that's not building rowboats. You can ask my name. I just threw something out.
Are you on drugs right now? What's happening? I'm getting high contact high. You got like a hobby?
Yeah, straight up. You ever row your boat? Build rowboats. No.
That's random, bro. It's not the first time I've made a canoe-based joke on the job. You love your canoes. You love the aquatics.
I like canoes, though. I was in Jamaica. They made him smile. Any other hobbies that you could see like monetizing or turning into like a business other than boxing for like a rap community?
I do like clothes and shit. I could tell. Other than that, I'm going to have a few other things I just don't want to talk about. Just yet.
How come? I'm curious. I'm into TV stuff. I might do some TV shit.
See, this is what I'm interested in. Movie shit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what I'm saying, bro.
You watch anime? I fuck with that type shit. Yeah, bro. Okay, so what anime do you watch?
Right now I was watching the new season of Seven Deadly Sins. Okay, I haven't seen it yet. Seven Deadly Sins. It's good?
Netflix original. Have you seen One Punch Man? Yeah, I've seen that shit. Love One Punch Man.
Have you seen Superman's ass? Bruh. I'll tell you this guy's the best. It could be three Supermans.
Literally. That's why I like him. You know. He's number one.
Number one. No matter what anyone says, he's straight. I can't believe you didn't like One Punch Man. I watched one episode.
I didn't. So like I like the conflict and like the premise of the story. The build arise. This dude knocks you out one hit.
Like what's if I'm not coming back? I already know you. He makes fun of everything that anime has to give you. Like for example, like just all animes though.
They're going to win regardless. It may take a lot for them to win. And motherfuckers might die and all that shit in the animes. But you know the main character is about to win.
And if he dies, it's going to be the end of the anime. But that's it. So One Punch Man is really just following the same rules. But like quicker.
Yeah, so poetic. That's why I watched the first episode. I got to get what this is about. Nah, bro.
Okay, so for anyone listening who doesn't know. You know, in animes it's a big deal. He gets stronger and faster so quick. He does it in like one episode.
And by the way, you know how? 100 pushups. 100 pushups. Really?
That's what your bodyguard does. He gets a pupil, right? Because this kid notices how powerful he is. And this kid is like a beast superhero.
He's like, you got to teach me your ways. He's like, alright. I mean, I do 100 pushups and 100 sit ups every day. And that's it.
And it flips like an anime arc on his head. Because you know he's the shit. And I'm the person who just wants my hero to be the hero no matter what. And that's why I watch One Punch.
Is it like comedic? It's funny, yeah. Did you say sometimes it's not just One Punch? Like occasionally?
There were a couple. There were a couple guys giving him a run for his money. You watch Demon Slayer? Yeah.
Oh, you'll really be watching anime. Yeah, I'll be fucking weird. Really? That's cool, that's cool.
Dragon Ball Z is the best. I'm like one of them like super villain niggas. Like I used to fuck with Dragon Ball Z. But then I was like, man, Dragon Ball Z ain't shit compared to the new anime.
But then like, I don't know, I just randomly like went back to like the new shit. And it was fine. Have you watched Dragon Ball Super? Naruto and One Piece is laid better than fucking Dragon Ball Z.
Yeah. See, I never watched that. I only watched Dragon Ball Z. It's only anime I've ever watched.
Oh, and Avatar The Last Airburger. Yeah, I was a kid. But Avatar The Last Airburger was great. Great y'all.
Fantastic y'all. He's about fantastic. You got a new girlfriend, huh? How long have you been dating for?
For like a minute. Just one minute, huh? Six seconds. Congrats on the new relationship.
I appreciate it. What's that like? She's running over there. Two minutes.
Nah, that's my baby though. Well, how'd you guys meet? We met each other a while ago. A while ago.
A while ago. Before I was famous. I gotta say, if you get any further away from the mic, it might be a silent episode. Maybe I was right, fam.
Maybe I was right, fam. No, I just realized the question he doesn't want to answer. He's like, wait a minute. How long have I been dating her?
One minute. Wait, so y'all met a while back. Were you guys friends at first? Or did you just reconnect recently and spark up?
No pun intended. Basically something like that. Wait, there's two questions. There's something like one of the things you said.
Wait, so you guys reconnected and like... Maybe you just tell me instead of me asking the question. I'm getting the vibe that he probably ain't too vocal about the relationship. I mean, I get it.
Look, there's a part of everyone's life. And maybe you're not like this. I got it in the brief from the team, bro. That he was like...
No, no, no. He's wearing a fanny pack, bro. What do you have in that fanny pack right now? What?
Just your phone? You use a pocket. I got it from Trippy's team. They hit me up.
They were like, oh, Trippy talks about this girl. He thinks she's so pretty. He wants to talk about it, like all this shit. He goes, well, that part's true.
That part's true. I bet. Hey, I wanted to ask you. Why the...
What just happened? What just happened? How did it happen? GP just literally rolled in.
Yo, do y'all know each other? GP rolls in and goes... What's up, dog? That's the security guard.
Like they're homies. You all know each other? What the fuck? Wait, dude, no.
That's your boy. Dude, we roll shit, man. What's going on? Why did you guys meet?
They laid a play down. They put the demolition down. We ain't telling you everything. I've been catching the five lately.
I feel like we're interviewing the secret service. GP, quickly. GP's looking jacked. I asked him.
I said you eat good at that ranch on, dad. Your head got thicker. I'll never understand this relationship. Back to Mr.
Trippy here. Look, man. When you make your music, it's always hard to come up with that next thing and find that material, that inspiration. So, you know you're not going out.
We know you're watching anime, but where are you finding your inspo from? You fucking your heart up at all? I know your relationship, but where does it come from? I'll just be living life, bro.
I just like music. I'm a music nerd. For real. It's like the video game, too.
It's like playing the game, but I'm playing it. Life. Is there a song that you were like, fuck this, it's never coming out, I don't like it, but then your team was like, yo, listen, we really like it, you release it and it crushes. Every day with beat.
Really? So are you a type of artist that hates his work? No. Every song he makes is like, what the fuck is this shit?
I hate it. I fucking hate it. Put it out. So what was the song that he didn't want to put out?
I think there's a lot of songs that feel like, you know, artists listen to music differently than others. You're more personal. You tell them like, I like this and it's like nah, but then you might like something, you're like nah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's probably a hard conversation, right? You think something's fire? Show it to your homies to your girl and be like, that never happened. What was the process like for Topanga?